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0–9. 1950 Chicago streetcar crash; 1950 Major League Baseball All-Star Game; 1950 NBA draft; 1951 Chicago mayoral election; 1951 NFL draft; 1952 Democratic National Convention
The Gold Coast Historic District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois. Part of Chicago's Near North Side community area, it is roughly bounded by North Avenue, Lake Shore Drive, Oak Street, and Clark Street. The Gold Coast neighborhood grew in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire.
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PCC streetcar, Chicago, 1950. 1950 Chess Records in business. [50] Population: 3,620,962. This was the peak of Chicago's population, which has been declining ever since. [51] 1951 December 20: The Edens Expressway, Chicago's first expressway, opened. 1953: American Indian Center, the oldest urban Native American center in the United States, opened.
The district, which is in southeastern Lakeview Township about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of the Chicago Loop, is primarily in the Lake View community but also includes a small part of the Lincoln Park neighborhood to the south. [3]
In 1861, the Illinois General Assembly incorporated Hyde Park Township, which included South Shore. [5] The area's population grew as workers in the nearby steel industry settled in the area. [4] Following the June 29, 1889 elections, the South Shore community area was annexed into the City of Chicago with the entirety of Hyde Park Township. [6]
December 1, 1950 Elected to the Cook County Board of Commissioners 4 David T. McKiernan: 1951 – May 25, 1957 Died in office 5 Thomas F. Fitzpatrick: September 17, 1957 – April 1, 1975 6 Jeremiah E. Joyce: April 1, 1975 – February 1, 1979 Democratic: Elected to the Illinois General Assembly for the 28th district 7 Michael F. Sheahan: April ...
The Brainerd Bungalow Historic District is a residential historic district in the Brainerd neighborhood of the Washington Heights community area of Chicago, Illinois. The district includes 527 Chicago bungalows built between 1915 and 1931 and a small number of other residential buildings. Brainerd, an outlying neighborhood of Chicago, was ...